Azure Search – Announcing the general availability of synonyms
Today we are announcing the general availability of synonyms. Synonyms allow Azure Search to associate equivalent terms that implicitly expand the scope of a query, without the user having to provide...
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Enhanced Security Update for Bing Maps API Keys
As announced on May 24, the Bing Maps Developer portal shipped a new feature allowing you to restrict access on your Bing Maps API keys to a set of domains that you specify. Starting today, wildcard...
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Agile SAP development with SAP Cloud Platform on Azure
This blog post was co-authored by Mario Szpuszta, Principal Software Engineer, Azure CAT Recently we announced that SAP Cloud Platform is transitioning from Beta to general availability on Azure. SAP...
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Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus VNET Service Endpoints in public preview
This blog was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli , Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking and Sumeet Mittal, Program Manager, Azure Networking. Azure Event Hubs, a highly reliable and easily...
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Support for Unity (Jumbo) Files in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 (Experimental)
This post was written by Olga Arkhipova. Many big codebases use so-called unity (jumbo) builds where many source files are included in one or a few ‘unity’ files for compilation, which makes compiling...
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Network Performance Monitor is now generally available in UK South region
Network Performance Monitor (NPM) - a cloud-based network monitoring solution for cloud-only, on-premises, and hybrid networking environments, is now generally available in the UK South region....
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What’s new in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central brings the simplicity of SaaS for IoT with built-in support for IoT best practices, and world class security and scalability with no cloud expertise required. We have been constantly...
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IP filtering for Event Hubs and Service Bus
For scenarios in which Azure Event Hubs or Azure Service Bus is only accessible from certain well-known sites, the IP Filter feature enables you to configure rules for accepting or rejecting traffic...
View ArticleProposal Manager for financial services helps increase proposal win rates
The commercial and corporate lending environment is increasingly competitive and squeezing interest margins for banks and lenders. Bank lending teams must navigate a stream of documents—such as client...
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New Azure #CosmosDB Explorer now in public preview
Today we're excited to announce Azure Cosmos DB Explorer, a full screen standalone web-based version of the Data Explorer many of you already use in Azure Portal for Cosmos DB. With Cosmos DB Explorer...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17704 available now!
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17704 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17704 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleWhat’s new in VSTS Sprint 136 Update
The Sprint 136 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts. In this Update we introduce several design changes as part of modernizing our user interface. Watch the...
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ASP.NET Core OData now Available
Introduction The Microsoft OData Team is proud to announce general availability (GA) of OData (Open OData Protocol) on ASP.NET Core 2.0. It is now available through Nuget package at...
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The whole of WordPress compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie
Why? Because it's awesome. Sometimes a project comes along that is impossibly ambitious and it works. I've blogged a little about Peachpie, the open source PHP compiler that runs PHP under .NET Core....
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure launches tamper-proof Azure Immutable Blob Storage for...
I’m pleased to announce that Azure Immutable Blob Storage is now in public preview – enabling financial institutions to store and retain data in a non-erasable and non-rewritable format – and at no...
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Lessons from big box retail
How can retail banks generate curated experiences? Learn from retailers. They use a cloud platform that orchestrates experiences from omni-channels to devices using data collected from various...
View ArticleIf I am a VSTS Stakeholder, can I also be an Admin?
Today, we’re excited to announce that users with the Stakeholder access level can now be administrators in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). With these upcoming changes, Stakeholders can administer...
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Workaround for Bower Version Deprecation
As of June 25, the version of Bower shipped with Visual Studio was deprecated, resulting in Bower operations failing when run in Visual Studio. If you use Bower, you will see an error something like:...
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Shared PCH usage sample in Visual Studio
This post was written by Olga Arkhipova Oftentimes, multiple projects in a Visual Studio solution use the same or very similar precompiled headers. As pch files are usually big and building them takes...
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